Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Reporter

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela has been a PCMag reporter since January 2012. Prior to joining the team, she worked as a reporter for SC Magazine, covering everything related to hackers and computer security. Angela has also written for The Northern Valley Suburbanite in New Jersey, The Dominion Post in West Virginia, and the Uniontown-Herald Standard in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of West Virginia University's Perely Isaac Reed School of Journalism.

'If you ask me a question and I don't know the answer but I find out later, I'll notify you,' the virtual assistant explained, according to Voicebot.ai. The new 'Answer Update' feature is reportedly rolling out to Alexa devices now.

The new restrictions come after the fitness app Strava introduced a 'heatmap' feature late last year showing where users workout, inadvertently making it easy to find hidden American military bases overseas.

More than half of respondents recently polled ranked hackers their top privacy concern, followed by companies collecting and sharing their personal data, and online surveillance by the US and foreign governments.

Just say 'Alexa, enable Away Mode,' and the skill will start playing hours of audio on your smart speaker to make it sound like people are home. In one 68-minute track, a woman walks her daughter through assembling a dresser over the phone.

According to The Wall Street Journal, some parents are paying upwards of $120 a month for Fortnite coaching for their kids. While some may balk at the idea, it may wind up being a good investment, considering there's now $100 million up for grabs in Fortnite tournament prizes.

Well-known Twitter smartphone tipster Evan Blass posted an image of a calendar with a 'P' marked on the space for Aug. 20. That 'P' can only mean one thing – Android P, the next version of Google's mobile operating system.

Aimed at kids and teens ages 11 through 18, the lessons in this new library cover topics such as privacy, respecting others online, best practices for strong passwords, the risks of public Wi-Fi, threats such as phishing and spam, and more.

China's Bytedance, which acquired Musical.ly late last year for almost $1 billion, is shutting down the app and migrating users to a similar one called TikTok. That migration will happen automatically the next time you update Musical.ly.

Such an attack could have easily brought productivity to a standstill, but Matanuska-Susitna employees had another plan: 'Without computers and files, borough employees ... re-enlisted typewriters from closets,' they said.

There's now a way to see how much time you spend on the Instagram and Facebook apps each day, on average. Another new option lets you specify how much time you want to spend on the apps in a given day so you'll get an alert when you reach that limit.

Those with a premium Spotify account can select any track, album, artist, or playlist in the company's catalog to wake up to. Those who use the free version of Spotify can still take advantage of this feature but will have to settle for shuffle mode.

The new group calling feature is currently rolling out to WhatsApp's iPhone and Android apps. 'Group calls are always end-to-end encrypted, and we've designed calling to work reliably around the world in different network conditions,' WhatsApp says.